A Mixture IRT Analysis of Risky Youth Behavior

The study reported in this manuscript used a mixture item response model Toggle Switch Extensions with data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2009 (N = 16,410) to identify subtypes of adolescents at-risk for engaging in unhealthy behaviors, and to find individual survey items that were most effective at identifying such students within each subty

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Correlation of drug exposure and bacterial susceptibility with treatment response for Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease: protocol for a prospective observational cohort study

Introduction The burden of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease is increasing globally and treatment outcome is in general poor.Therapeutic drug monitoring has the potential to improve treatment outcome by ensuring adequate drug exposure.However, Toggle Switch Extensions very limited population-based studies exist for MAC lung disease.Thi

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